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ISRO successfully conducted the RLV LEX or Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission at the Aeronautical Test Range ( ATR ) , Chitradurga, Karnataka on 2nd April , 2023 . The RLV took off at 7:10 a.m. IST by a Chinook  Helicopter of the Indian Air Force as underslung load and flew to the height of 4.5 km above MSL . Once the predetermined pillbox parameters were attained , based on the RLV’s Mission Management Computer command , the RLV was released in mid – air ,  at a down range of 4.6 km and completed  an autonomous landing at ATR air strip at 7:40 a.m. IST.

     The landing was carried out under the exact conditions of a Space Re- entry vehicle’s landing – high speed , unmanned ,precise landing from the same return path-  as if the vehicle arrives from space . Landing parameters like Ground relative velocity ,  the sink  rate of Landing Gears and precise body rates , as might  be experienced by an orbital reentry  space vehicle in its return path, were achieved.   RLV LEX  demanded several  state -of- the- art technologies including accurate Navigation hardware and software , Pseudolite system , Ka- band Radar Altimeter, NavIC receiver,  indigenous Landing Gear , Aerofoil honeycomb fins and brake  parachute system. 

 in a fast in the world, a winged body has been carried to an altitude of 4.5 km by a helicopter and released for carrying out an autonomous landing on a runway. 

 Along with ISRO,  IAF,  CEMILAC,  ADE and ADRDE  contributed to the taste . With LEX , the dream of an Indian Reusable Launch  Vehicle came more  closer to the reality .

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